President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that the new IIM campus planned at Naya Raipur would be a state-of-the-art campus and would provide amenities comparable to any other world-class institute.
Delivering the convocation address at the 4th Convocation of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, the President said “IIMs can partner with IITs and identify research goal posts that may have a larger social relevance. While IITs could provide technical solutions, for the same IIMs can make available the managerial expertise.”
Citing the genesis of IIM Raipur, its role and importance, the President said, “I’ve happened to see that IIM Raipur is relentlessly pursuing the objective of excellence in teaching, planning and human development. Education enriches lives, advances thinking, propagates new thoughts and enhances human capacity.”
Describing the role of IIMs, Mukherjee emphasised on the transformative role of such organisations of repute play in the development of a the State and the Nation.He reiterated the Indian Government’s resolve to provide such institutions the best of Infrastructure.